This week, Onslow County leaders will consider using $400,000 in tourism money for waterway maintenance, buying a new landfill bulldozer and abandoning a county road to acquire property for a new maintenance garage.Onslow County Board of Commissioners will meet 7 p.m. Aug. 3 at Onslow County Government Center in Burton Park. Onslow County Landfill has two bulldozers, a John Deere and a Komatsu. The John Deere has been operational more than 10,000 hours in 10 years.

It’s not that Eric Leary isn’t serious about being White Oak’s new head football coach, but the 43-year-old former Viking assistant knows how to use humor effectively. It says so right there on his teacher...